How best to share papers in an open source repo?

Question

So I am planning to release something soon and would like to share the handful of copyrighted papers that have inspired it, which were all obtained publicly on the internet.Should I find canonical URLs and link, or would it be fine to have a directory with the PDFs for easier reference?

lamchob · Accepted Answer

You have two options:* DOI Numbers, which uniquely identify scientific papers* "Paper style" citations, with Authors, Title, publishing Venue and date. This is enough for any interested reader to find the sourcesI would not recommend hosting copyrighted material in a personal repository.

How best to share papers in an open source repo?

So I am planning to release something soon and would like to share the handful of copyrighted papers that have inspired it, which were all obtained publicly on the internet.
Should I find canonical URLs and link, or would it be fine to have a directory with the PDFs for easier reference?

You have two options:
* DOI Numbers, which uniquely identify scientific papers
* "Paper style" citations, with Authors, Title, publishing Venue and date. This is enough for any interested reader to find the sources
I would not recommend hosting copyrighted material in a personal repository.